/*
* Eoulsan development code
*
* This code may be freely distributed and modified under the
* terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1 or
* later and CeCILL-C. This should be distributed with the code.
* If you do not have a copy, see:
*
* http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-2.1.txt
* http://www.cecill.info/licences/Licence_CeCILL-C_V1-en.txt
*
* Copyright for this code is held jointly by the Genomic platform
* of the Institut de Biologie de l'École normale supérieure and
* the individual authors. These should be listed in @author doc
* comments.
*
* For more information on the Eoulsan project and its aims,
* or to join the Eoulsan Google group, visit the home page
* at:
*
* http://outils.genomique.biologie.ens.fr/eoulsan
*
*/
package fr.ens.biologie.genomique.eoulsan.util;
import java.util.List;
/**
* This interface define a resource loader.
* @author Laurent Jourdren
* @since 2.0
*/
public interface ResourceLoader<S> {
/**
* Load all available resources.
* @return a list with all the loaded resources
*/
List<S> loadAllResources();
/**
* Load a resource.
* @param name name of the resource to load
* @return a list the loaded resources that had the requested name
*/
List<S> loadResources(String name);
/**
* Reload the list of available resources.
*/
void reload();
}